9 comments

  • trescenzi a day ago

    I was curious how extreme this was in comparison to the past. I grew up near Philly so I looked at the Mount Holly historical data set. Since 1996, that’s the cutoff of the data I found, there’s been 4 summers with two 100+ days in a row in them. Zero instances of three in a row. Honestly it’s rare enough I didn’t believe it had ever been over 100. But it does seem like it’s a once every 10 or so years event. I’d already made plans to go to Florida. I guess I’m going there to avoid the heat this year.

    Disclaimer: not trying to make a climate statement here just genuinely curious.

    • rolph a day ago

      you should also cross index that with Relative Humidity, thats what will get you.

      high humidity hinders evaporative cooling, and extremely low humidity is dessication. overheated core, vs dehydration

    • BugsJustFindMe a day ago

      I'm curious which years they were.

  • lofaszvanitt 20 hours ago

    Ask Elon Musk to solve this.

  • HarHarVeryFunny a day ago

    Honestly I'm looking forward to it. IMO June here in NJ has been a bit too cool this year for beach/pool weather.

    Hot summer weather is a UK tabloid perennial favorite, but obviously it hits a bit different here in the US when you've got A/C to go home to!

    • officeplant a day ago

      "Some of you may die, but that is a sacrifice I'm willing to make for beach weather"

      • literallyroy a day ago

        OP probably doesn’t control the weather

        • taylodl a day ago

          They control their yearning for a weather event that will likely cause the death of others.